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To: blam
How does one date a brooch to 1300 years old?
3 posted on 11/21/2003 9:17:41 AM PST by NautiNurse (Everyone is born right handed. Only the exceptionally gifted overcome it.)
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To: NautiNurse
Probably by the layer they found it in, in which they would have performed carbon-14 dating on any organic material.
4 posted on 11/21/2003 9:21:07 AM PST by dirtboy (New Ben and Jerry's flavor - Howard Dean Swirl - no ice cream, just fruit at bottom)
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To: NautiNurse
How does one date a brooch to 1300 years old?

What a silly question. Why, by the pawn shop tag affixed to it of course. :-)

5 posted on 11/21/2003 9:21:50 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: NautiNurse
FWIW, here's a neat site with some explanations of dating techniques.
6 posted on 11/21/2003 9:28:48 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: NautiNurse
You ask if she wants to go, then give her a kiss.
13 posted on 11/21/2003 9:52:42 AM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: NautiNurse
How does one date a brooch to 1300 years old?

One way would be to find it associated with coins which could be assessed as to age-- the reign of a particular sovereign, for example.

20 posted on 11/21/2003 11:04:09 AM PST by Mackey (Of course, nothing on Earth could be older than 6,000 years. < /sarcasm >)
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